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Senate Rejects Amendments for Background Checks

Senate Rejects Amendments for Background Checks and Assault Weapons Ban

04/17/2013 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

Senate Rejects Amendments for Background Checks

Clip: 4/17/2013 | 15m 35s

Senate Rejects Amendments for Background Checks and Assault Weapons Ban

Proposed amendments for assault weapons and high capacity magazine bans and universal background checks failed to pass the Senate. Kwame Holman reports. Then, Gwen Ifill gets two perspectives on why Senate failed to pass the proposals from National Shooting Sports Foundation's Lawrence Keane and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.

04/17/2013 | Rating NR

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